Fiscal decentralization denotes the devolution of expenditure responsibilities and revenue-raising authority from central governments to subnational jurisdictions. It rests on the principle that ...

The agreement that eurozone leaders reached last week has succeeded in engaging the private sector in the Greek rescue. The package represents a sensible compromise: eurozone countries will provide ...

This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and ...

Fiscal decentralization refers to the transfer of revenue‐raising powers and expenditure responsibilities from central to subnational governments. In the environmental sphere, this institutional ...

Fiscal decentralization in Belgium progressed substantially in 2015-19. However, as decentralization of expenditure responsibilities continued to outpace decentralization of revenue authority, ...

In a recent IMF working paper, the impact of fiscal decentralisation has been explored on public service delivery using 64 countries inclusive of advanced, emerging and developing countries over a ...

ISLAMABAD: As record Rs1.863 trillion budget deficit during the last fiscal year has once again exposed pitfalls of fiscal decentralisation under the 18th Amendment, the country’s top economist seeks ...

China has experienced an unprecedented period of growth over the last three decades, partly reflecting big structural changes. Nonetheless, productivity has slowed in recent years, raising concerns ...

Rwanda’s decentralisation policy has progressively transferred important responsibilities for planning, service delivery and local development to districts. Yet one important area remains less ...

A series of decentralization reforms started in April 2000, at the end of Prime Minister Obuchi Keizō’s administration (1998–2000), and continued through September 2006, when Koizumi Jun’ichirō was ...

In this paper, I test the effect of fiscal decentralisation on ethnic conflict while emphasising state capacities as a crucial mediating variable. I assume that fiscal decentralisation is unlikely to ...

There is a growing interest in the issue of decentralisation of political, administrative, economic and financial dimensions. Its concern has come in the context of the trend that aims to expand the ...